GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon R9 380 4G

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 380 4G, which features a core clock frequency of 970 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1425 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It features 1792 SPUs, 112 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon R9 380 4G		8837 points
GeForce GTX 950		6536 points
	Difference: 2301 (35%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 380 4G		21 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 950		10 Mh/s
	Difference: 11 (110%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950		90 Watts
Radeon R9 380 4G		190 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (111%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon R9 380 4G should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 950 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 4G		182400 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 950		105728 MB/sec
	Difference: 76672 (73%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 380 4G will be a lot (more or less 121%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 950. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 4G		108640 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 950		49152 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 59488 (121%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 950 should be a small bit (more or less 6%) more effective at AA than the Radeon R9 380 4G, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		32768 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 380 4G		31040 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1728 (6%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.